Chapter 892 Industrial Incubation Center
As the first railway hub in East Africa, the importance of New Frankfurt is self-evident. Of course, there cannot be only one national railway hub in a country as large as East Africa.
According to the "three vertical and three horizontal" plan in East Africa, these six trunk railways should be connected vertically and horizontally to form nine intersections. However, because the West Coast Railway cannot cross the Namib Desert for the time being, Walvis Bay Port cannot form a railway hub. .
The objective reason for this result is that the Namib Desert is a mobile desert. Even in the twentieth century, only a few countries had the ability to build roads and railway facilities in this area.
Moreover, later maintenance is difficult, and the railway is easily buried by wind and sand. It is necessary to carry out supporting sand control projects along the line, or to build elevated railway lines like the Far East Empire in the 21st century to reduce sand erosion and flooding.
Obviously, neither of these two points can be easily achieved in East Africa now, and even if it can be achieved, it is extremely uneconomical.
So in reality there are only eight intersections of three vertical and three horizontal lines. These eight points are also the railway hubs on the six most important trunk lines in East Africa.
There are three national railway hubs in the central region, namely Kisangani City, New Frankfurt City, and Bulawayo City.
In fact, including branch railways, Harare, Lubumbashi, Dodoma, etc. are also regional railway hubs. However, East Africa is currently mainly building trunk railways. Unless branch railways are like Kazakhstan Only something of great value like the Bayi Railway would be built before the main line railway.
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Mbeya City is the science and technology center of East Africa, which is unexpected. After all, higher education in East Africa is concentrated on the eastern coast, and Soga City was built with the direction of science, education and culture in mind.
So it is neither positioned as a science and technology center nor a city with the highest concentration of higher education. It makes sense for Mbeya City to stand out from many cities in East Africa.
Nowadays, the industrial size of Mbeya City has been surpassed by Harare City, but its industrial base is still strong, and the higher education level of Mbeya City is also ranked among the top five in East Africa.< br>
Since there are industrial and With the blessing of educational background, the technological level of Mbeya City is naturally not bad in East Africa, and the core reason that really makes Mbeya City surpass Dar es Salaam, First Town, Soga... these cities is that Mbeya City The scientific research institutions in Beia far exceed those in other regions.
Including universities and independent research institutions, there are more than 100 research institutes of various types in Mbeya City, including 13 at the national level, 32 at the provincial level, and nine at the municipal level. Thirteen institutes cover most industrial fields such as metallurgy, electric power, power, energy, steel, railways, and shipbuilding.
“The level of scientific research in our city of Mbeya is also very advanced in the whole of East Africa. This is the result of the relocation of some institutions to central provinces such as Lusaka and Harare. If it were not for the loss of industry and brainpower, Mbeya would be The field of scientific research will only be stronger. "
The mayor of Mbeya City said with some regret. After all, as the pioneer in the development of the central region of East Africa, Mbeya City's geographical location determines its support for the development of the central region. main position.
Because according to the geographical boundaries of East Africa, Mbeya City is right at the intersection of the central and eastern parts. In the early days, the group of cities in the interior basically focused on the development of heavy industry. At that time, Mbeya City was The heavy industry center in East Africa naturally has to take on the responsibility of assisting various industrial and mining cities in central China to set up the framework.
“Mayor Reni, don’t feel sorry. Industrial transfer is the general trend. The country has formulated general policies and we can only follow them. Moreover, Mbeya’s achievements today are inseparable from the central government. The government's policies are tilted. Only when everyone makes progress can our country develop better in the future," said Logans, who came to fight Qiu Feng.
Rogens is the mayor of the new Frankfurt city. His mission to Mbeya this time is to fight against the autumn wind. Bah, according to the requirements of the central government, it is to integrate Mbeya’s automobile, electric power and equipment manufacturing fields. Some of the scientific research institutions and talents were packaged and brought back to New Frankfurt. In the past ten years, Mbeya City can be said to have been an "incubator" for industries in various central provinces. After all, as the earliest heavy industry base in East Africa, Mbeya City has a rich family background.
For the shameless government "scum" like Rogers, Rainey said angrily: "You just got an advantage and acted like a good boy. Thinking about your new Frankfurt city makes me very angry. , Rhine City doesn’t even have a shadow yet, and you’ve already reaped the first batch of policy dividends.”
Rogens said with a smile: “You can’t say that, even without Rhine City, our new Frankfurt City. Its status cannot be lowered. After all, it is a transportation hub. The name Frankfurt alone is full of the central government’s high hopes for our city.”
Reni said dismissively: “You have certain advantages in transportation, but compared with us. Compared with the city, it is not much higher. After all, the land transportation between the central and eastern parts cannot bypass our Mbeya. In the future, Mbeya will build more roads and railways, and we also have Lake Malawi. This large natural lake has relatively developed water transportation.”
This is indeed good. Lake Solon (Lake Tanganyika) and Lake Malawi have given Mbeya a unique location advantage in the East African land. and plays an important role in water transportation.
Even compared with the city of New Frankfurt, it can only be said that the difference between the two is very small. Lake Solon and Lake Malawi are both long and narrow lakes. The distance between the north and south of Lake Malawi is more than 560 kilometers, and Tanganyi Lake Ka is more than 670 kilometers long, so if you want to bypass Mbeya City on land, you have to go a long way. In addition, the depth of the two lakes is more than hundreds of meters, so if you want to walk through the lakes Can only rely on ships.
“This time, we will allocate 30% of the Second Automobile Plant Research Institute to join the New Frankfurt City. As for the equipment manufacturing industry, we have not yet selected the personnel. After all, the equipment manufacturing industry is very "It's complicated, our plan is to allocate some of the strength from 13 strong factories and research institutes to join your city, including electric power, locomotives, engines and other fields," Reni said rather painfully.
The City of New Frankfurt will need to mobilize at least a hundred professional teams from Mbeya City this time, which is also very taxing for Mbeya City. The last time this was done was the City of Harare.
However, Harare City is much more "excessive" than New Frankfurt City. It has almost copied 60% of Mbeya City's industrial sectors and scientific research institutions to Matabele Province, otherwise The city of Harare cannot develop that fast.
Of course, Mbeya City cannot achieve this by itself. Instead, the entire Lake Malawi Industrial Zone behind Mbeya City has dispatched a large number of elite soldiers to the three central provinces. , supporting the industrial framework of these three provinces.
Therefore, this time New Frankfurt City "sucks blood" from Mbeya City, it is not a big deal for Mbeya City.
“These are the treasures of our Mbeya City, Logans, you must treat them well.” Reni said.
For this, Logans naturally agreed: "Don't worry, Mayor Reni, talents are respected everywhere, and our New Frankfurt City will naturally receive the best treatment for this person. Welcome guests.”
After three days in Mbeya, one of the industrial incubation centers in East Africa, Logans continued on his way east. After all, Mbeya is just the starting point, and there is more to come. Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Nairobi and other cities are waiting for you.
According to the itinerary, Logans will go to Soga City after returning, mainly to snatch talents from East African universities. College students are a scarce resource in East Africa, and various cities will go to Soga City to recruit talents.
Soga City is mainly home to domestic college students, while the international student group is mainly allocated by the East African industrial sector. They are generally prioritized by agencies directly under the state, state-owned enterprises or royal enterprises, and then they can get their turn to pick up some "leftovers". However, they can For those who want to study abroad, it’s hard to say what the upper limit is, but the lower limit is very high, and cities and institutions in East Africa are also rushing to get them.
(End of this chapter)